Environment, Politics and Society
Research in Political Sociology Series, Vol. 25

This special volume of Research in Political Sociology addresses the interconnectivity of environment, politics and society. Contributors engage with critical topics such as water resource management, climate change, civil rights, poverty and social inequality, green transportation and brain drain, and examines these issues internationally in North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East. In the midst of vigorous discussions on environmental sustainability and crises that make global communities more vulnerable than ever before, on local, regional, and global scales, the chapters in this volume offer a much-needed dialogue, and will be of interest to politicians, policymakers and scientists as well as academic researchers.

Preface by Ram Alagan and Seela Aladuwaka 1, Polarizing Climate Politics in America; Dana R. Fisher, Anya M. Galli Robertson, Joseph Mccartney Waggle, Amanda M. Dewey, Ann H. Dubin and William Yagatich 2, Multilevel Governance and Minimum Flow: The Varying Conservation Outcomes of Water Conflict Resolution; Kate Pride Brown 3, Empowering the Disempowered Through Civil Rights Geographic Information Systems: The Case of Black Belt Region of Alabama; Ram Alagan, Robert White and Seela Aladuwaka 4, An Environmental Psychology Course and African-American Students’ Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors; Marcia Rossi 5, School Gardens: Unpacking The Potential to Reduce Food Insecurity Among Alabama’s Children; Sharon Lindhorst Everhardt, Brenda Gill, Jonathan Cellon and Christopher Bradley 6, The Impact of China’s Changing Hukou on Women’s Rural Land Rights; Deborah Naybor 7, Plugging The Malaysian ‘Great Brain Drain’: Recognition of Dual Citizenship; Yew Wah Chow and Lorena Mathien 8, Scale & Political Ecology: A Conceptual Analysis of the Brazilian Samarco Disaster; Eric Spears 9, Green Transport: A Way Forward for Environmental Sustainability; Yashpal Malik, Nirupama Prakash and Ajay Kapoor 10, Feminist Elites in Democratic Jordan 1989-2016; Mohammed T. Bani SalamehaAnd Emad Shdouh

Ram Alagan is Associate Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. His research focuses on GIS, Civil Rights GIS, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Regional Studies. Seela Aladuwaka is Associate Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. Her research interests are Regional Geography, Social Impact Assessment, and gender and development.